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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit being Samsung’s IP lawyer

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Reuters: Koh frequently remarked on the similarity between each company’s tablets. At one point during the hearing, she held one black glass tablet in each hand above her head, and asked Sullivan if she could identify which company produced which. “Not at this distance your honor,” said Sullivan, who stood at a podium roughly ten feet away. “Can any of Samsung’s lawyers tell me which one is Samsung and which one is Apple?” I hope the defence team like movies about gladiators.

My iPhone 4S thoughts are over on STV

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But in summary:  What’s more important to people won’t be this stand-out feature [Siri], but the legendary smoothness and simplicity of the Apple software. The operating system has been updated to version five, with 200 tweaked or new features. Coupled with the improved hardware, and a lot of existing iPhone users nearing the end of their contracts, expect this latest model to fly out of the shop in the run up to Christmas. More at STV.tv.

Tim Cook is the unique part of Apple, not Steve Jobs

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It’s the Jobs side of the equation that Apple’s rivals — phone, tablet, laptop, whatever — are able to copy. Thus the patents and the lawsuits. Design is copyable. But the Cook side of things — Apple’s economy of scale advantage — cannot be copied by any company with a complex product lineup. How could Dell, for example, possibly copy Apple’s operations when they currently classify “Design & Performance” and “Thin & Powerful” as separate laptop categories John Gruber nails it.

Follow the patent, follow the money, find some madness from HTC

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U.S. Patent No. 6,473,006 on a “method and apparatus for zoomed display of characters entered from a telephone keypad”; originally filed by Phone-com, which assigned it to Openwave, then sold to a French company named Purple Labs, which sold it on to Myriad’s French subsidiary, sold by Myriad to Google last year and by Google to HTC on August 29, 2011 (recorded on September 1). And now HTC use it to sue Apple for infringing on their IP. Madness, I tell you. Madness!